NOTT News: The birthday optical illusion

Tuesday, 20 November 2007

The birthday optical illusion

Please do not tell Jane that I only bought her 6 roses for her birthday. They were quickly put into a vase and placed in front of the mirror - she is so grateful for her dozen roses!!! We spent the day before her birthday in Jerusalem and went to the American Colony Hotel, as you can see from the website it's in keeping with Jane's expensive tastes. I bought her a mineral water and then made an excuse to leave before she saw the menu. http://www.americancolony.com/

As you can see, Jane's cards were in keeping with the huge bouquet of flowers she received! Some of my birthday cards have already arrived (hint-hint) and even a Christmas card, they don't have Christmas cards in Bethlehem! P

1 comment:

Paul Bright said...: Hi Peter and Jane, just getting up to speed with your blog, great stuff. A belated Happy Birthday to you Jane and have a great day on the 28th Peter! We're both well, month into retirement and busy catching up on stuff, great 5 days on SW coast path Minehead>Barnstaple. Dancing lesson tonight cha cha cha

Love Paul and Catherine; 26 November 2007 at 09:18

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